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The Moon on Tuesday, April 29, 2008: Waning Crescent, 41% lit

Waning · 40.9% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 20°

Moon age

23.3days

Moon phase on April 29, 2008Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 April 2008387,489 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 29, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.9% of its visible face lit, 23.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.9%Illumination at noon UTC
23.3 dMoon age
387,489 km240,774 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (20°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 29, 2008 is on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 10:26 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 12:18 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, April 28, 200814:12
New Moon (after)Monday, May 5, 200812:18

The Moon around April 29

More about this date

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 6, 2008 to the new moon of May 5, 2008, a cycle of 29.35 days.